The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an "adult" disease, at an alarming rate. If we're obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?

In The China Study , Dr. T. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" and the "most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease."

The China Study is not a diet book. Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.

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Not just the China study. Dr. T. Colin Campbell lays out the overwhelming empirical evidence for healthy eating in compelling detail. Whereas Dr. Campbell's critics and detractors wallow in animal food industry profits and subsidies. How anyone could doubt the credibility of Dr. Campbell's work is beyond me.

This book changed my attitude about health, medicine and nutrItion! I am embarking on a healty whole food plant diet, no more guttony, sugar addiction and endless struggle with weight control. So glad my accupuncturist Dr. Lin recommended the book, gladder I read the whole thing!

This book was so informative. A lot of it is research studies and pretty dry, but since it relates to health I powered through it and was glad I did. I have adopted the lifestyle this book recommends and have felt so wonderful eating such great foods! If you are serious about your health, read this book!

A great book for those interested in nutritional science and the effects of animal versus plant-based foods in the body.

This is not a self-help book, but rather a mountain of evidence towards to the conclusion that plant-based diets can powerfully overcome, prevent, and reverse some of the most common diseases and ailments in America. Be prepared for charts and descriptions of lengthy experiments, with only a tiny portion of the book dedicated to "how to" change your life.

Ironic that a report about a new study out of the very same university - Cornell - says the exact opposite today (30 Mar 16). Read for yourself at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3515293/Vegetarian-diet-raises-risk-heart-disease-cancer.html. Just proves that the nutrition juggernaut is still in its infancy and every piece of advice should be taken with a grain of salt (pun intended). It will be years before we read something like "Eating a veggie diet absolutely, positively, undoubtedly, causes cancer."
Furthermore, Campbell doesn't have diabetes. I do and I know positively that today a small bowl of strawberries, blueberries and blackberries -- highly recommend by the ADA, AHA, NHS and virtually every nutrition 'expert-sans-diabetes' in the "powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists" out there -- shot my glucose to 200. The description says: "If we're obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?", the same question Dr. Richard Bernstein, a type 1 for 80+ years, asks in his book. "The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists." The problem is carbohydrates - plain and simple. Read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes; "The Big FAT Surprise" by Nina Teicholz; "The Great Cholesterol Myth" by Drs. Johnny Snowden and Stephen Sinatra; and for people who prefer less textbook-like writing read "Breakthrough" by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg. It's a novel style work about the creation of human insulin.

Campbell advocates diet for differences in health outcomes. But income should be taken into account. The people using the most animal products are higher income. They are also smoking, using alcohol and living in cities with air pollution and other urban stressors. Did not see any evidence that these factors were taken into account.

Spiritofkittiness
Nov 01, 2014

If you want to protect yourself from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases of the affluent, this book is for you. If you want to be healthy, this book is for you. If you seek truth, this book is for you. It is the proof for the real Daniel Plan. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to read this!